7/22/2007: Stephen Assigns "This Is... Bill" To The Cast of Rutless

Your task is to film a stunt/skit for "This Is... Bill".
Just in case you have never watched This Is... Bill, here is the link to the videos: This Is... Bill Videos
This Is... Bill is the flagship of the Billtvshow.com website and original reason for the site. It is a Jackass style show that we produced back in the early 2000's. We have been talking about doing a third season for a long time and we even have filmed some good stuff for a third season, but we need a lot more and things have grown stagnant. Thus, I am throwing this task out there. Everyone on the cast must film a This Is... Bill style skit or stunt. If it is good enough, it could be featured in the third season. Suggestions: Public pranks, physical harm, hilarious acting. Watch the videos for ideas. (We've got eating skits covered for this season btw ;P)
Try not to duplicate or imitate our old ideas and try to be fresh and original, but within the Bill style. All submissions obviously must be video. Don't do anything to risk your well-being or life and we are not responsible for any injuries, the decision on what you do is ultimately up to you. All individuals involved must submit a video in which they are a star of the stunt or skit. Therefore, if you happen to film this along with other Rutless cast members, you will need to film a skit/stunt for each of you, so we should end up with 6 videos in the end. Have fun and don't die! You have two weeks to complete this one (August 4th).

7/20/2007: Stephen Assigns "Telephone, Telly Font" To Todd

You must play a game of telephone with at least 6 people, including yourself.
The game is telephone. All the players get in a circle. The first person has a phrase and they whisper it to the next person and it continues around the circle until it gets to the last person and they must then say the phrase out loud. Odds are, it will have changed since the start and that is the fun of the game. You must use the 5 phrases that I provide you. A few things to remember: Whispers only. Only whisper the phrase once to the next person. Be ready to write down the resulting phrase so that you can post it here for us later. Post reactions and possibly audio if you can.
The 5 phrases you must use:
1. Mahogany tables don't look good painted fuschia.
2. Canteloupes are good for you in the morning.
3. Storm surge is up to over sixteen feet.
4. Cabin fever is contagious in many parts of the southeast.
5. My midichlorian count is well over a thousand parts per million.

7/18/07: Allison Assigns "Michael Vick" to Nathan

Your task is to make a fictional animal fight at a fictional location in Hudson, and to pass out fliers to a few people to let them know about your fictional fight. Michael Vick was recently indicted for owning a house where dog fighting took place, so it inspired me.

Your animals can be anything you want. Cats, Zebras, Ligers, or something you make up will do just fine. Just make sure you use a fictional location in Hudson (the town where Nathan lives) so that people don't try to arrest anyone :)

Post a copy of your flier for us to see and tell us people's reactions to this animal fight.

7/12/2007: Stephen Assigns "Print It!" To Marianne

You must create a fake, sensational newspaper today.
You must design and create a two or more page fake, sensational newspaper with ridiculous stories in it. Refer to The Onion online fake newspaper for ideas. Please provide us with images, scans, whatever so that we can see and read your paper.

7/12/2007: Stephen Chooses "Thing In A Jar" From The Refusal Pool

From the refusal pool:
Today you must carry around a thing in a jar with you.
Requirements: Go to this site: http://www.traipse.com/thing_in_a_jar/
Now you know what you need to do. Create a thing in a jar and carry it with you today. Take some pics for us so we can see it. Let us know if people asked about it and if so, what they thought it was.

I'm gonna try to do this one. Marianne also knows her task, so we should be able to get things rolling along again.

7/6/2007: Nathan Assigns "Deff Comp 3" To Brad

Today you must build 3 computers with a limited budget.

Requirements: You must build three different computers to sever three different functions with a limited budget. Don't get your panties in a bunch. You will visit Tigerdirect.com and find the parts to build the computers and post the prices and why you picked the parts to build that particular computer. Here are you three computers and their budgets:

1. A family computer that needs to be able to burn DVD/CD and need to be able to upload pictures off media cards.
Budget: $600

2. The ultimate gaming computer that has everything that you will need to do both online gaming and network party gaming.
Budget: $900

3. A personal business computer that you will need to run your at home business that you can take images or powerpoint presentations to outside business to sell your product. This will have to include either a blueberry or other form of traveling device.
Budget:$1250

Have fun and don't forget that you will need everything from tower to screen.

7/4/2007: Stephen Assigns "Digg This!" To Nathan

Today you must sign up on Digg.com and starting digging some stories.
Requirements: Being a good net citizen, I like to show people places where they can get the full experience of the internet. This is very much like Brad's StumbleUpon task, however you will be looking at a slightly different website. First of all, you must go to digg.com and sign up for an account. Then you must visit the following two pages:
Most Popular News Stories In The Last Week
Most Popular Videos In The Last Week
Look thoroughly through those stories and use your account to "digg" at least 10 of them and then link to your favorite ten stories or videos in your post.

7/2/2007: Stephen Assigns "Futile Fishing" To Marianne

You must go fishing in places where there are no fish to catch.
Requirements: You must go to three different locations in public that have water, but no fish and then go fishing there. Some examples: Mudpuddles, water fountains, public swimming pools, etc. If possible, try to use actual equipment and provide either video or pictures.

6/25/2007: Stephen Assigns "Artistic Fruit Explosions" To Marianne

You must create an artistic video of fruit exploding.
Requirements: Basically, find the highest building that you can get permission to use, get a bunch of fruits: apples, melons, etc., then drop them off the building. Someone with a camera or a still camera should be filming a close up view of the fruit hitting the ground. You should then edit all of your footage into an artistic video showing the fruit exploding in slow motion and set it to the Blue Danube Waltz as the music for the video. All you need to do is post the video and perhaps a description of the experience.

6/19/2007: Stephen & Tyson Assign "Iron Chef" To Todd & Allison

You must compete against each other "Iron Chef style" in a cooking competition.
Requirements: Hopefully you have both seen the TV show "Iron Chef" before, but if not, there here is a bit of a back story for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_chef
For each of you: Your job is to create 4 dishes that are made from the ingredient of the day. You will create a starter/appetizer, 2 entrees, and a dessert. You must then "plate" and present these dishes to three people. They must then evaluate each dish, one by one. You need to provide video or photo evidence of the cooking, the final plated results, and the evaluation process. The more that you can show us, the better chance you have of winning the battle. If you cannot post video, you need extensive photos and full descriptions of the judges' evaluation of your food. If you have never seen an episode of "Iron Chef", then I strongly suggest that you watch one if at all possible to get a feel for what goes on. Once you have posted, Tyson and I will choose a champion. Without further ado, the ingredient of the day is: Corn.

6/15/2007: Stephen Assigns "Sportgy" To ? & ?

Between the two of you, you must compete in 20 different sports.
Now, remember, this is between two of you and you have two days. It doesn't have to be split evenly 10-10, but the person who does less, has to do at least 7. When you participate in the sports, if there is a specific "place" or "field of play" that the sport takes place on, then you must do it there. Don't just go out and do it in your front yard or something like that, unless it would normally be done there. You can choose from the following list and you must photograph or video (preferably) yourself for each one.
The "Sports":
Basketball
Baseball
Football
Soccer
Golf
Hockey
Field Hockey
Lacrosse
Tennis
Bowling
Darts
Putt Putt
Billiards
Swimming
Sprinting
Javelin Throw
Volleyball
Badminton
Curling
Handball
Racquet Ball
Cricket
Ping Pong
Croquet
Skateboarding
Cycling
Rugby
Ultimate Frisbee
Kickball
Dodgeball
Skeeball
Skeet Shooting
Air Hockey
The Caber Toss
Fencing
Baseketball
Boxing
Fishing
Wrestling
Competitive Eating
Motocross
Skiing
Shuffleboard
Diving
Horseback Riding
Chicken (Dodging Cars At The Last Second)
Russian Roulette

The makers/owners/people involved with Rutless are not responsible if the people who do this task get hurt or die. So be careful!

6/6/2007: Stephen Assigns "Stumble Upon Gasm" To Brad

Your task is to download the Stumbleupon toolbar and stumble upon and positively rate 50 sites. You must then post the top 10 sites that you found via SU.
I just found out today that I made the "Top Stumblers" page of Stumbleupon.com, one of the best websites ever conceived. Essentially, you download a toolbar to your web browser and you click a button and are sent to a random webpage within one of your specified areas of interest. Then you rate whether or not you liked that page and repeat. Your task is to go to Stumbleupon.com, download the toolbar, and sign up for an account. During the registration process you will be asked to check areas of interest. Be VERY liberal with this. Some areas that seem uninteresting are the most interesting ones. Once you begin to clicking the stumble button, you must rate the sites that you visit a thumbs up or thumbs down. Give it a thumbs up if you want to see more sites similar to that site and vice versa. If you go to your profile, you will see it lists your total pages liked. This is the number that you need to get to 50. Once it is there, your stumbling is done, unless of course you want to do more, feel free, that is kind of the point. Anyways, once you've "liked" 50 pages, choose the top 10 of those. In your rutless post, post the top ten links you stumbled upon and a little blurb about each and why you liked it. You must also post a link to your Stumbleupon profile.

5/30/2007: Stephen Assigns "Homemade Auto" To Marianne

Your task is to build a homemade automobile, using items from a list that I will supply you.
Requirements: You must build an automobile out of the list of items that I am going to supply you. It needs to be as life-sized as you can get it. You must try to make it really function as much as possible, though I think we'll all be happy if you can just make it look halfway decent and maybe roll. You need to fully describe the process of building the auto and what you used. You also need to provide plenty of pictures of the construction process and the final product and, if possible, a video of you trying to drive it. Here are the items you can use. The number in parentheses to the right indicates how many of that item that you can use. You can use any tools to alter these materials.

A bed mattress (1)
A sheet of plywood (2)
A (up to) 10 foot 2x4 (8)
A lawn chair (2)
A 5 gallon bucket (4)
A broomstick (2)
A metal bar (up to) 10 foot long (2)
An old tire (4)
An action figure (1)
A frisbee (4)
A shoe (2)
A backpack (1)
A banana peel (2)
A sofa (1)
A kitchen chair (2)
A rug (1)
A taxidermied animal (17)
A used syringe (48)
A venetian blind (2)
A piece of plexiglass (2)
An umbrella (6)
A microphone stand (2)
A screw (50)
A nail (50)
A shrunken voodoo head (50)
A painting (1)
A vase (4)
A potted plant (2)
A garden hose (1)
A length of rope (up to) 100 feet long (1)
A box of dental floss (2)
A roll of electrical tape (10)
A tube of caulk (10)
A Tim Duncan rookie card (1)
A printed copy of this task (1)
An 8.5x11 sheet of paper (500)
An old telephone (1)
An empty medicine bottle (40)
A bottle of glue of any kind (2)
A coupon for Shake And Bake (1)
A packet of mild sauce from Taco Bell (7500)
A leprechaun (1)
A box of lucky charms (2)
A four leaf clover (4)
A pot of gold (1)
A rainbow (1)
A trophy (4)
A door (2)
A window (4)
A titmouse (9)
A small length of white string (9)
A pack of firecrackers (9)

In addition, you may use 3 items not listed, but you can only use one of each of these items.

5/26/2007: Marianne Assigns "Mr. Owl Discovers The Truth" To ?

Today you’re going to help everyone answer the question: How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
Requirements: No cheating! If you bite, lose count, or suck instead of lick, you need to start all over. You need to have variables of course, so use the average of three. That means you will have to lick three suckers without any oops. Tell us in full detail how many suckers you used, why you needed to start over and of course how many licks it takes. Pictures or video would be nice but not required.

5/24/2007: Todd Assigns "You wanna trade?" to Nathan

Nathan, you may have heard of OneRedPaperClip (oneredpaperclip.com). Kyle Macdonald started with a red paper clip and over the course of a year, he traded that paperclip and kept trading until he finally traded for a house.

Your task for the day is to begin with a small item around your house/office (a rubber band would work well) and trade as many times as you can during the day. Each trade should be a trade to get something better than what you had before. Let's see what you can get by the end of the day!

I'd like you to document each trade by taking a picture of the item that you are trading for. So you should have a picture of the beginning item and then all the items you acquired in your trades.



Post your pictures and description of the day's activities.



..and Have fun!

5/18/2007: Stephen Assigns "What Chu' Talkin' Bout Rutless?" To ?

You must pretend to have an unhealthy obsession with Gary Coleman for the day.
Requirements: You must play the role of someone who is obsessed with Gary Coleman until at least 4:30pm. You must do the following things, at a minimum, to meet this requirement: 1 - You must try to add Gary Coleman into all of your conversations today. Talk about him and use his signature catch phrase "What chu' talkin' bout -insert name here- ?" as much as possible. In your post, describe ways in which you worked Gary Coleman and his phrase into your day to day conversations. You are also welcome to post audio for this, if you are able. 2 - You must set your computer wallpaper to a picture of Gary Coleman and leave it set as such until the time is up. Take a picture of your computer with this new wallpaper and show it in your post. 3 - You must create a collage of images, articles, etc. related to Gary Coleman on either your office or bedroom wall. You need to use at least 15 such items in your collage. Leave the collage up until the time is up. Take a picture of the collage and show it in your post. 4 - Finally, we want to hear you say it. You must record yourself saying "What chu' talkin' bout Willis?" and post the audio file in your post. Here is the wikipedia article for Gary Coleman, just to get you started: Gary Coleman Wikipedia Article.

5/16/2007: Nathan Assigns "Talk To The Hand" To Todd

Todd, your task is to literally talk to your hand. Use a hand puppet that you make or a drawing on your hand with eyes and a mouth. You will need to talk to your hand while at work just like you would a fellow co-worker or a friend. If some one ask who you are talking to you will need to introduce them and let them talk to the hand.
Requirements: You will need to provide video or picture proof of your hand puppet, and at least three instances, at least 1 min. long, where you talk to the hand (with one being with someone else talking to the hand). You need to give it a name, and a voice to go along with it. I am going to leave this wide open to when you talk to your hand as long as it is at work. Have fun with this one and remember "Talk To The Hand".

5/12/2007: Brad Assigns "Greeting Card Pitch" To ?

Your task for Monday is as follows: You must create at least three different greeting cards (each for a different holiday or occasion). You can create these digitally or use glue and construction paper. I prefer the ones that have a pop-up when you open them. Take these three or more masterpieces to your local card shop (like Hallmark) and pitch them to the employees. If you can, take pictures of the experience. Post how they reacted, maybe how other customers reacted behind you in line. Also, if they actually have a line of communication for card submissions, try and submit them officially. Oh, and post the cards or pics of them for us to read.

5/11/2007: Stephen Assigns "Canine Cuisine" To Brad

You must carry a book around with you all day. However, I have made a special cover for the book, which you must put on it first.
Requirements: I have prepared a book cover for you. You must click on the image below and download the full size image of the book cover. Then you must print it out and put it on top of a real book. Attach it to the book using tape, glue, putty, whatever, as long as it looks good and stays attached. For the duration of the day, from 9:00am to 7:00pm, you must carry the book with you everywhere you go. The front cover of the book needs to be displayed prominently at all times. When people ask you about the book, you can give them any other reason besides the true one. In your post, please describe the day in full: curious looks you got, questions or comments people made to you, how carrying the book around affected you in anyway. You must also post pictures of the assembled book and you carrying the book in public. If you so desire, you can post video and/or audio as well. Have fun!

Click the image below to download the full size, printable version of the cover:

5/10/07: Allison Assigns "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" To Stephen

Stephen, since you are taking Brandon's place due to his lack of wanting-to-do-rutlessness, I'm going to give you a pretty easy task. I'm sure since you are a child of the 1980's, you watched Pee-Wee's playhouse on TV. If you remember correctly, Pee-Wee always had a secret word of the day. Every time that secret word was said in the episode, everyone around had to scream. Your task is to pick a secret word and every time someone says it during the day, you must scream. Since I'll be at work with you tomorrow, you have a choice of posting what this word is ahead of time, or not.

Requirements: Try to capture video of yourself doing the task. If not, I'll be there and I can vouch for you. I'm looking forward to hearing you scream. :)

5/9/2007: Stephen Assigns "Office Olympics" To Allison

You must host an impromptu office olympics, which has to consist of three or more events.
Requirements: Since you are going to be stuck at work all day tomorrow, let's try to make it a bit more interesting. This task is inspired by an episode of The Office, my current favorite show on TV. You must come up with 3 or more events that people could compete in, but they must be office themed. It could be throwing paper clips in a cup from long distance, or yardstick pole vaulting (probably not a good idea to do that one). You need to get at least two other people to compete in the events along with you and you should award homemade gold, silver, and bronze medals for each event. As for what you need to post. Obviously, describe the office olympics thoroughly: What were the events, who participated, who won, etc. You should also make your absolute best effort to post video of the events. If not, then at least post a lot of photos. Have fun and literally break a leg!

5/8/2007: Todd Assigns "Van Gohn" To Stephen

Knowing your creative side, Stephen, this task should fit you to a tee. Your task, should you choose to accept it, will be to open an eBay auction that will last 1 day (if you do not have the 1 day listing option, then a 3 day listing is OK but will not end before the task is over). You will be auctioning off your very own digital creation, your interpretation of a Van Gogh painting. You may select any painting by Van Gogh and do your best to create something with the same style. You may spend no more than 30 minutes creating your “masterpiece”, we don’t want it to look too good.

In your listing, you must gush about your love for Van Gogh and how you’d like to one day be just like him. Allude to the fact that you are even willing to cut off your ear for inspiration if you must (especially if your masterpiece doesn’t sell).

At the end of the auction, you will send the winning bidder the full-sized JPEG of your
creation (which happens to be the exact image that you are using in the listing).
You should take a screenshot of your initial listing and any other relevant emails, bid
questions, etc. Describe why you chose the painting you chose to “copy” and give a brief
summary of the acivities on the listing by end of the day.

5/7/2007: Nathan Assigns "Old McDonald" to Todd

From 9:00am to 5:00pm tomorrow you must act like a different animal on the hour every hour.Requirements: You must physically act and make noises like a different animal every hour on the hour and film yourself doing the act. Post both the movies and your experience of the events. If you can get peoples reaction to your gestures that will help us know how good of an actor you really are. A couple of examples of animals might be a chicken, cow, or monkey. Have fun doing this and remember that the more creative you get the more comments the you will see.

5/5/2007: Stephen Assigns "Chalk Body Outlines" To ?

You must draw 5 chalk body outlines in unusual places in public.
Requirements: You need to go buy some large white chalk (like kids play with in the driveway) and go out in public and draw 5 chalk body outlines (like police draw around dead people) in various, unusual spots. And when I say unusual, that can mean an unlikely place for someone to die or an impossible place for a body to be laying, such as on a wall. At a minimum you need to take 5 photos of the 5 outlines, which need to prove they were drawn in public and in unusual spots. Preferably, take additional photos to document the entire experience. If possible, get photos of people's reactions. Optionally, you can also use white spray paint so that you can make use of more locations where chalk won't stick. Describe the experience, reactions, etc. and include the photos in your post.
Example of a chalk body outline:

Additional Discussion: This is the first task for Rutless Season 2. It is not yet known who will perform this task. This will be decided when the random drawing is done on Sunday to determine the order of the cast members for Monday thru Saturday. The person who draws Monday will have to do this task or take a task from The Refusal Pool, but at a Penalty.

6/3/2006: Seth Assigns "Race Car" To ? And ?

This task in fact has nothing to do with a race car but everything to do with words. Palindrome: A word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward. Person and Person, your task is to find 30 palindromes, and post them. This work can be split up however you like, be it 15 a piece or not. And please don't just get palindromes off the net, try to come up with some creative ones yourselves.
Requirements: Post all of the palindromes that you come up with.

6/2/2006: Tyson Assigns "Use Heroin For Your First Time" To Seth

Ok, so this task has abolsutely nothing to do with heroin or drugs or anything like that. I just wanted to put that as the title. Honestly, I've been thinking on and off for the past hour trying to come up with something for you to do. I think I've finally come up with something. Hopefully, you feel up to doing this. Seth, your task should you choose to accept it, is to write the lyrics for a Rutless.com theme song. I'm not going to put a limit on how long or how short it has to be, but hopefully if you do it you will put a little thought into it and make it reasonable. You don't have to do anything over the top by any means. Just a little tune. Maybe, hopefully, sometime in the future we will have Stephen sing the song. hehe. Well, have fun!

6/1/2006: Stephen Assigns "Options" To Tyson

I've been saving this task up for awhile now and it's time to unleash it.
You will be given 5 options. The most risky option will also be the least time consuming, while the least risky option will be the most time consuming.
When you complete one of the options, your task for the day is complete.
Option 1: High Risk / Very Quick
Film yourself hitting a real golf ball inside of your house. You must use a driver and must swing as hard as you would during a normal drive on the course. It must make impact with a hard object. Whatever happens, happens.
Option 2: Medium/High Risk / Quick
Film yourself riding a bicycle full speed into a pine tree that is at least 5 feet tall. You may use a ramp if you would like. You can't hold back on the speed though.
Option 3: Medium Risk / Average Speed
Shake up a canned mountain dew or sun drop for 20 minutes. Film yourself opening the can quickly, with the can suspended over the driver's seat of your car.
Option 4: Medium/Low Risk / Slow
Sit as close as you can to the TV and watch a home shopping channel for 40 minutes. Take pictures and post some.
Option 5: Low Risk / Very Slow
Go out with a camera and take pictures of wildlife for one hour. Make a flickr set of the ten best pics.
Requirements: Post your reactions to each option and then tell us which you chose and post the required elements of that option.

5/31/2006: Brandon Assigns "Fake Black Eye" To Stephen

Stephen your task is to make it look like you where in a fight last night. Try to make one of your eyes dark or both. I would use makeup if I could but use what ever you can. Also have a good story if anyone does think it's real.
Requirements: Please take some pics, I don't think videos will be needed unless you get a real blackeye. Have Fun.

5/30/2006: Allison Assigns "Musically Declined" to Brandon

Brandon, I hope you were born with a music gene, because your task is to make a musical instrument using non-musical instruments. When I was in 8th grade I had to make a wash tub bass. You can make anything you want! Be creative! Once you have made the instrument, sing a song to go along with it. It would be great if you could make up a little song about Rutless. It could be our theme song!!
Requirements:
Take pictures of the instrument, and if possible, a video of you playing it and singing your song with it!! Good luck.

5/29/2006 Brad Assigns: "Yeast Infection" To Allison

Allison, your task if you choose to accept it, is to form and bake a Pilsbury Dough Boy. You must take pictures of him prior to and post baking and carry him around with you all day. If you meet someone new throughout the day or run into a friend, then you must introduce your dough boy to them and take a pic of them together if possible.
Requirements: Post pictures as described above.

5/27/2006: Seth Assigns "Commando Joe" To ?

UrbanDictionary.com defines Commando as "free-balling, or going without underwear." You task...,if you chose to accept it is to go the entire day commando.
Requirements: Some sort of proof of this is needed. Also, tell what your day was like without wearing underwear.

5/26/2006: Allison Assigns "It's My Burfday" to Seth

Seth, I hope you're feeling celebratory! Your task is to go to a restaurant, any restaurant and tell them it's your birthday and see what kind of goodness ensues. Your best bet is to go to a family restaurant because they are more likely to make a big deal out of it. I know for a fact that Sagebrush takes your picture and puts it in a card and gives you an Oreo Brownie Blast. But there are also many other choices of restaurants in Morganton.
Requirements: Take a couple of pictures or video to show your goodies! Tell us what restaurant you chose to go to, and what kind of special treatment you received!
Have fun! It's your burfday!

5/25/2006: Brandon Assigns "Thomas Edison" To Allison

Your task, if you so chose, is to make a product from what ever you can, that if on the market, would make everyday life easier.
Requirements: Please tell us what the product does and how much you think it would cost for one of them. Take pics and or video if you can. Also give a list of the materials used in the making of this item.

5/24/2006: Stephen Assigns "Indoor Putt Putt" To Brandon

This task is to be done in the solitude of your own home. You must create an entire 9 hole indoor putt course in your house. You should be creative and use everyday objects as barriers and to help make the design of the course interesting. It is up to you as to what you will use for the holes. I would recommend something like cups laid on their sides. You need to also set a par for each hole. You need to play the course, with at least one guest, and record the scores.
Requirements: First of all, describe the experience of making the course and post the scores from your match. After that, there are two options, you can choose one or both. The first option is to photograph each hole individually and put them in a flickr set. The other option is to film your match and post that.

5/23/2006: Tyson Assigns "Lefty" To Stephen

I thought of this one at the last minute, and i kinda like it. Stephen, your task should you choose to accept it, is to do your main daily functions left handed. This includes, combing you hair, brushing your teeth, eating you food, writing, or any other daily function that you always do right handed that is not listed here. If you realize you are doing something right handed and it's not included in that small list, then you must do it left handed. You do not have to type using only your left hand or write on any important pieces of information left handed. If you have to use you right hand for something like that, then feel free to do so. Just try to focus on your left hand for most of your daily functions.
Requirements: Provide a description of your experience using your left hand throughout the day and include any problems or incidents that you may have encountered. Pictures are not required nor will that prove much, but if you want to do something like that then you can. Have fun and don't work too hard.

5/22/2006: Maggie Assigns "Friendly Test" To Tyson

Tyson your task, should you choose to accept it, is to test how friendly people are these days. You are to wave at a minimum of 25 people throughout the day, and count the number of waves you get in return. Also, open the door for as many people as possible, and count the number of times you get a "thank you," or at least a smile and nod.
Requirements: Post the number of waves you gave and received, and the number of times you opened doors and received thank yous. Post any interesting events that might have occured while completing this task.

5/20/2006: Brandon Assigns "Bed Head" To ?

Your task who ever you may be: Starting when you wake up in the morning, you must leave your hair the way it is. You cannot touch it with anything that would modify its appearance in any way, such as hair products, shampoo, a comb, hair pin, etc. You may not wear a hat or disguise your hair so that other people cannot see it.
Requirements: You must pictures of your head/hair taken at three or more different angles. Please describe the experience of going through the day with bed head.

5/19/2006: Stephen Assigns "Lemonade Stand" To Brandon

For a half hour tomorrow, you must operate a lemonade stand. It doesn't matter where you do it or how bad it looks. The time does not begin during setup, you must actually have the stand open for business for a full thirty minutes.
Requirements: Post details of what happened and how much money you made, if any. You need to also post pictures and/or video of the lemonade stand.

5/18/2006: Allison Assigns "Shhhh!!!!" To Stephen

Stephen, this one's going to be a toughie, but I know you can handle it. Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to choose 10 words. These 10 words are the only words you can speak from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Should there be an instance where you have some important meeting at work, then you are allowed to pause your task, but you must make up the time after 5:00 p.m. The reason I chose this task for you is because you're already so quiet. I wanted to get you to the point where you're just DYING to speak up!! You are allowed to write down anything at all to help you communicate, but you must only speak the 10 words you chose!
Requirements:
Post the ten words, and any proof that you can to prove your completion of task. Since I will be around you most of the day tomorrow, I can keep up with your progress. Good Luck!

5/16/2006: Seth Assigns "Do It Yourself" To Stacey

Stacey your task is to come up with you own task and do it. This shouldn't be too hard, but don't make it too easy. Just come up with a task that you will be able to finish.
Requirements: Provide pictures/videos of you task.

5/15/2006: Tyson Assigns "Test Drive" To Seth

Seth, your task, should you choose to accept it, is to go to a car dealership and test drive an extremely fast car. It doesn't have to be a Lambo or anything like that. Although, if you can find one, that would be preferred. However, it does have to be an extremely fast car. Or, at least the fastest you can find that you would be allowed to take off of the lot.
Requirements: You will need to take a picture of the car and if you are able to, take a picture of the interior or get the dealer to take a picture of you driving. Try to pick up some speed while test driving it for the hell of it. Please include a discription of your experience as well. Maybe, we'll get a purchase out of this too. Instead of the "Geek Squad" we can be the "Rutless Squad". Ok, I'm done now. Good luck.

5/6/2006: Allison Assigns "Wal-Mart Games" To ? And ?

Well I feel honored to be the first one to assign a 2 day 2 person task. I only hope I can live up to expectations here. Person and Person, your task is to get together and go to Wal-Mart (or Target, or wherever). Once there, you are to each get a cart. You must seperate and go around filling up the cart with as many obscure objects as possible. Once the carts are full, you must them come together and switch carts. Then, you must put back, in the right place, all of your partner's obscure items. Since you won't have a watchdog, the honor system must be used.
Requirements: Try to get video and / or pictures showing you did this task. Good luck. :)

5/5/2006: Seth Assigns "A Pirate's Life for Me" To Allison

Tomorrow you are to spend the day pretending that you are a pirate. You must act as if you have been at sea for many years, stealing other people's booty.
Requirements: If possible you should videotape at least one event in which you approach someone while pretending to be a pirate.

5/4/2006: Tyson Assigns "No Standing Order" To Seth

Well, Seth has a pretty busy schedule ahead of him tomorrow. He has some exams to fail. So, this task won't really interupt his hectic schedule or even his daily routine. Seth, today your manliness will be tested. Should you choose to accept it, you have to sit down every time you pee today. This should be a pretty simple task, yet maybe a little creepy
Requirements: You must explain how you felt and all that good junk and give us at least 1 non-explicit photo of your business. Your business being urinated...not your junk. Anyway, enjoy.....i guess.

5/3/2006: Brandon Assigns "Around And Around I Go" To Tyson

I hope you like this one T dog, aka Jabba The Hutt. Your task if you should so chose is to find some kind of chair that spins all the way aournd. You must spin for at lest 1 minute and 30 seconds. Then get up and run or try and run for at least 20 feet. Have fun.
Requirements: Try to get video or pics, and I must be there to see you fall lol.

5/3/2006: Stacey Assigns "Sweet Cherry Pie" to Brandon

Sorry to have disappeared on you guys. Stephen was right; I wanted to get the hell out of Dodge after the thrashing Jayson gave me. Not really, though. Anyhow, Brandon, your next task is to go to a deli, get a cherry pie (Or any flavor, really), take it home, and eat that mammajamma as fast as you can. Don't worry, I'll reimburse you for the pie if you want.
Requirements: As always, pictures and/or video would be nice but aren't necessary. Just make sure you don't make yourself sick, dizzle.

5/1/2006: Stephen Assigns "Lopsided Political Debate" To Stacey

If all goes well, I see could this being one of the most entertaining tasks to date. Many of you who followed my other site may remember a fellow by the name of Jayson Morgan. Jayson has been dying to be a cast member on Rutless, though his computer ineptitude and lack of many other basic qualifications keeps him from being able to participate. And that's obviously a nice way of saying it. Let's just say, the glass is half full and desert wanderers are sipping on it hourly. The wheel's still spinnin', but the hamster's dead, and so forth.
Stacey, you will be taking on Jayson in a mock presidential debate. It will be videotaped. You and Jayson will be asked several questions related to current foreign and domestic issues and you will debate the issues based upon your opinions and will describe how you would handle those issues, were you the President of The United States. The following is a list of topics that the questions for the debate will be pulled from:
The persistent presence of the military in Iraq
The current domestic situation involving illegal immigrants
Steroid usage in atheletics
The rise in gas prices
The consumption of finite resources
Global warming
The relationship of the US & Russia, regarding US interests in Iran
The situation with nuclear capabilities in North Korea
The US's relationship with the UN
The US's trade deficit with China
Requirements: You need only to post your impressions from the debate and the video.

4/29/2006: Tyson Assigns "Post Secret" To ?

You may or may not have heard of a site called www.postsecret.com. It's a site where you basically send in a secret that you've decorated on a postcard or made your own postcard. Most people just make their own postcard all together. You can get more information on the general idea of how to do this on the site. As well as the address to send it to. However, the secret must be true. It can be serious or funny. Which ever one you choose. You have to post the "Post Secret" on here. So, it's up to you what you want us to see. Most of you have probably been to the site before or at least heard of it, but it's purpose is basically just to get a secret off of your chest. The man who runs the site posts about 20 new "Post Secrets" every Sunday. The secrets are completely annonymous. So, no need to worry about other people finding out it's you. Just us. Try to think of this task not as an annoying one, but as a pleasant one. Try to be creative with how you express your secret. For, that is the key to getting it posted. Enjoy.
Requirements: You must post a legible scan or photo of the postcard.

4/28/2006: Stephen Assigns "Kleenex Eating Champion" To Tyson

Most people may not know that Tyson basically has no gag reflex. Back when we used to film funny videos, we did a video of Tyson eating 10 kleenexes in 5 minutes. Tyson, your task is to try and beat this record, by eating as many kleenexes as you possibly can in 5 minutes.
Requirements: You need to post the entire video of you eating the kleenexes.

4/27/2006: Brandon Assigns "The Cat's Meow" To Stephen

If you are familiar with the movie "Super Troopers", you may remember the scene at the start of the movie, where the officer is inserting a cat meow into his normal sentences, in an effort to confuse and annoy someone he pulled on the side of the road. Stephen, your task is to record a conversation that you have with someone during the day, in which you insert meow frequently into the conversation.
Requirements: An audio file would be the best, along with a description of what happened.

4/26/2006: Allison Assigns "He-Man" To Brandon

Hee Hee this one makes me laugh. Brandon, you seem like the type of guy who probably watched He-Man as a kid. Your task is to go to the highest point you can find, be it mountain, hill or the top of a building, dressed as close to He-Man as possible. There, you are to reach one fist into the air (or a fake sword if you have one already) and yell "I have the power!!"
Requirements: Go to high place, dressed, and yell. Try to have someone take a picture and/or video. You DO have the power.

4/25/2006: Seth Assigns "High Fives to all the Guys" to Allison

Allison your task for tomorrow is to that throughout the entire day every guy you come in contact with you must give them a high five. Notice I said “guy” and every one of them as well. No girls allowed.
Requirements: I'm not sure if pictures or video will be necessary, though they would be appreciated; please be honest. Try to keep count of how many you high five and describe anything interesting that happens as a result. You can stop at 7pm.

4/24/2006: Stacey Assigns "Homework Pass" to Seth

As those who know me will be able to attest, I am a math retard. Despite my SAT score (1510), I really am awful at it. Seth OWNS at math, so I thought I'd get him to do some problems for the "remedial" math class I'm taking. Have fun laughing at how easy they are, guys. Then laugh even harder because I don't know how to do them.
Requirements: Do my homework and paste your answers on the site so everyone can see how mathematically inept I am. I'll email you some of the problems.

4/22/2006: Tyson Assigns "Smile, You've Got French's" To ?

This task should be a pretty easy one for whoever gets it. Their task should they choose to accept it is to get a bottle of mustard and write "Rutless.com" in a parking spot. You can pick a high profile or a low profile area to do this. Preferably, somewhere that it will be seen quick enough before it is washed away.
Requirements: You must take a picture of the parking spot before and after. You should also take a picture of the place where you are doing this as well.

4/21/2006: Allison Assigns "Urban Legends" To Tyson

Tyson, I hope you don't scare easily. This one might get ya! But it's minimal effort. It is a two-part task. Your mission is to find out the TRUTH about 2 Urban Legends. The First is "Pop-Rocks and Coke". You must find Pop-Rocks (any flavor, but strawberry is the yummiest) and put them on your tongue, then drink a can of Coke. The legend says that if you drink Coke with Pop-Rocks you will die. Your mission is to find out if this is true.
The second part of the task is Bloody Mary. You must go into a bathroom, public or private (your choice) and turn out all the lights. Then you have to look into the mirror and say "Bloody Mary" 3 times. The legend says that when you do this, the ghost of bloody Mary, who died a long time ago for some reason (not the queen mary), will come out of the mirror and murder you. You need to let us know if that's true or not.
Requirements: Tell the story. What happened when you did these. Provide photographic proof of the Pop-Rocks/Coke incident. It'll be pretty hard to get pics of the Bloody Mary one, but try. Good Luck.

4/20/2006: Brandon Assigns "It Came From 1982" To Allison

You must find the following four coins: a penny, a nickel, a dime, and a quarter, all from the year of your birth.
Requirements: You must provide 5 photos: One of you holding all 4 coins in your hand and then 4 individual shots of each coin that clearly show the year on them.

4/19/2006: Stacey Assigns "My Lovely Little Lump" to Brandon

This one will be pretty easy for Brandon, I think. It's really quite simple, sais. "Sais," as those of you familiar with Mid-World argot will know, is not a typo. At any rate, Brandon, your task is to booty dance in public. Easy, no?
Requirements: Pictures and/or video would be nice, but seeing as a couple of my last posts have been without such tomfoolery, it is certainly not required. Have fun, Brandon.

4/18/2006: Seth Assigns "Duke Nukem" To Stacey

As for anyone living in Morganton, North Carolina know that the local news paper isn't exactly well written, and as for the people who know Mr. Shores (Stacey) knows that there is nothing that he hates more than grammatical errors (which have probably plagued this post). Stacey, your task for tomorrow is to buy a copy of The News Herald, and edit it. You can give proof of this through pictures or just typing up the mistakes and then showing how they should have been written. Now some people might be wondering why the editor of the paper himself doesn’t do this. Well, who knows? That might explain the name of the task.

4/17/2006: Stephen Assigns "Unlucky Frank" To Seth

Knowing that you have a long day of classes ahead of you tomorrow, I want to give you a task to pass the time. While in your more boring classes, you must doodle a comic strip entitled "Unlucky Frank". I would like for the final, entire comic to be at least 20 "frames" long, if not more. Make it as funny as you possibly can.
Requirements: After you have completed the comic, take high quality pictures of it and post them on here as a Flickr set. You don't need to make frame by frame pictures, just enough pictures so that we can easily read the comic.

4/15/2006: Stacey Assigns "Mr. Stinklepuss" to ?

You must go up to a couple of people you don't know and ask them if they would like to meet "Mr. Stinklepuss". You must ask them using a very creepy voice as well.
Requirements: You should post a written description of what happened. You should also post one of the following: pictures, audio, or video of you performing the task.

4/13/2006: Brandon Assigns "Photo Scavenger Hunt" To Tyson

This one is straightforward. You must find 7 of 10 of the following items and take photos of them.
The Items:
Funny road sign
Yellow car or truck
Dog
Lucky Rabbit's Foot
Toy/model punch bug
Home plate
Xbox 360
Pizaa box
Golf cart
Pig's feet
Requirements: Comment on the difficulty or ease of the assignment and anything interesting that happened and then post the pictures of each item, preferably as a flickr set.

EDIT: This one has been moved to the refusal pool, since it was never completed.

4/12/2006: Seth Assigns "Milly Vanilli Style" To Brandon

You're task Brandon, is to film a video of you lip-syncing along with 'The Hardest Thing' by 98 Degrees. You should actually put effort into this. I want to see some passion. If you can think of a better song then go for it. The only requirement is that is must be a popular 90s song. Here is a little inspiration: I Want It That Way

4/12/2006: Allison Assigns "Discrimination Is Wrong" To Seth

Well well well i finally get to assign Seth a task. There's a Hooters in Greensboro, right? Good. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to go to your local Hooters Restaurant, and fill out an application for wait staff. You are to fill out the application while at the restaurant, and hand it personally to the manager or whoever is in charge. Now I know Hooters doesn't really hire males for wait staff, but your goal is to try. I know you don't really want this job, so it doesn't matter what you actually put on the application. Just try. If anyone gives you flack, you can say something about Gender Bias or Sexual Discrimination.
Requirements: You must actually fill out a real application at a real Hooters restaurant. I know it will be difficult to prove this or to take pictures, but give it a shot. Tell us what kind of questions you had to answer, and whether or not you felt discriminated against as a male in a female driven workplace.
good luck!

4/10/2006: Stephen Assigns "Lottery Of Indigestion" To Allison

As many of you know, North Carolina now has its own education lottery. One of the first things that has been made available for purchase is a one dollar lottery ticket that gives you a chance at winning up to $5000. Allison, your task is buy TWO of these one dollar lottery tickets tomorrow. Scratch them off. For each of the tickets that is not a winner, you must eat that ticket. For each ticket that is a winner of any amount, congratulations, you do not have to eat it. If you have to eat either or both of the tickets, and I recommend this from experience, you may eat the ticket in conjunction with a sauce (i.e. ketchup, mayo, thousand island dressing, etc.), which will help wet it and make it go down easier. You must completely swallow all parts of any ticket that you are required to eat.
Requirements: You will need to post a written description of what happens. Post pictures of both lottery tickets after they have been scratched off. Also, post pictures of you eating any tickets. Any additional media or testimonies of people who see you eat a ticket would be helpful.

4/8/2006: Stephen Assigns "Treat Yourself" To ?

Everyone has things that they are putting off doing for themselves. Your task is to think of something that you have been wanting to treat yourself to for a long time, but have been holding off doing. It could be something that you want to buy, it could be going somewhere, etc. For example, you may have been wanting to go to an expensive restaurant for dinner, so now you could go there to complete the task. You could have been wanting to buy a certain DVD, so now you can buy it to complete the task.
Requirements: You must provide a detailed description of what you chose to treat yourself to and take multiple pictures to document what you did or bought.

4/7/2006: Stacey Assigns "Mad Skills" to Stephen

I was browsing around "The File Cabinet" for videos to watch the other day, when I came across one labeled "The Top 10 Dunks of All Time." You can find it here: http://www.filecabi.net/video/top-ten-dunks-time.html

Naturally, only extremely talented athletes are able to dunk well, so I thought I'd get one of my lazy, unathletic friends to butcher their performances. I'm sorry, Vince Carter.

Requirements: Videos and still images of your dunks will be fine. You needn't do every dunk, since some will be impossible, such as the one where Shaq tears down the goal. Also, unless you have insane leaping abilities, you will need to do this on a lowered goal, which is fine. If at any time you want to jump over someone like in the video, use a little kid or get someone to kneel down. Try not to hurt yourself . . . much.

4/6/2006: Brandon Assigns "Road Rage" To Stacey

Since you didn't meet your technical requirements for your last task, I decided to give you something a little bit more hardcore. From the time that you wake up until 7pm, everytime that you are caught at a red light, you must give yourself a good, hard smack to the cheek. It does not matter which vehicle you are in or if you are driving or a passenger, you must still slap yourself. The slaps cannot be love taps, they need to be nice and hard enough to be funny.
Requirements: You should provide, at the least, images of you slapping yourself and the red marks left behind. It would be greatly appreciated, if possible, for you to provide a video of one or two of the slaps.
Have fun, and don't hold back.

4/5/2006: Seth Assigns "You Are So Beautiful" To Brandon

Oh Brandon, I hope you've got your voice tomorrow. You task is to sing "You are so beautiful" to at least 4 different, unknowing people.
Requirements: This is going to be based on the honor system, but you'll need to write about the reaction you got from the people and how you felt when singing to them.

4/4/2006: Tyson Assigns "Name That Tune" To Seth

Well, if you know Seth, you know that he's really into music. Although, he's not really into the contemporary type stuff. He's more into the punk/rock/emo type music. Like, a lot of the bands he listed that Allison had to hide in her previous task. I like some of his music, but i'm also into people and bands like Jack Johnson, DMB, Gavin Degraw, and a lot of other random bands as well as country music. I am going to limit him to Jack Johnson, and DMB. He has to listen to at least 5 songs of which he has never heard before from both. The point is, he has to listen to the songs until he recognizes one from both artist's he likes or appreciates for at least some reason out of the 5.
Requirements: He has to listen to at least 5 songs from each. Then he has to post the name of the song and explain why he enjoyed it or at least appreciated it. He can not at any point bash the band/singer in his post. It all has to be good and honest feedback. You can post the song as well if you like. Good luck.

4/3/2006: Allison Assigns "Supermarket Sweep" To Tyson

Stephen suggested that I give Tyson a task involving a lot of sports. But since Tyson is really into sports (from what I can tell) I don't want to give him a task involving sports. That would be too easy.

Tyson, your task, should you choose to accept it, is a supermarket scavenger hunt. You are to go to your local chain supermarket (Food Lion, Harris Teeter, etc.) and find and photograph each of the items below and give a small description of what each is. I recommend using the flickr account I set up for pictures, since there will be a few. Or, if you have another online outlet for pictures, that's fine. If you do wish to use the flickr site, the username and password are posted in the rutless.com forum, in the staff thread about image uploading.

Requirements: Find and photograph each of the following items and upload them for us to see. You must use a CHAIN supermaket such as Food Lion or Harris Teeter. Give a small description of each item, if it applies.

The Biggest Tomato
The Greenest Banana
The Least Expensive Item in the Store
The Biggest Item in the Store
The Most Expensive Item in the Store
The Coolest Toy from the Toy Aisle
The Most Disgusting Thing (Something you would NEVER eat)
Your Favorite Cereal
Your Least Favorite Soft Drink
Something that has Six Colors on the Label
Something that has only 5 ingredients
The Friendliest Cashier

This one's easy, right?

4/1/2006: Brandon Assigns "No Cell" To ?

If you choose to accept this task, you will have to go through the entire day without using your cellphone, except for a total medical emergency crisis.
Requirements: You need to post a detailed log of every single time you had to change your daily routine to find an alternative method to contact someone, including details of who you needed to contact and for what reason (vaguely). You can, of course, utilize any kind of pictures, audio, or video to help show how not using your cellphone has affected you. I hope to God someone else gets this one.

3/31/06: Stacey Assigns "Save the Snails" To Brandon

Bearing in mind that Brandon's work schedule can be pretty hectic, I decided to give him a task that would only take a few moments of his time. Brandon, you are going to be making a prank phone call. In this phone call, you must claim you are taking donations for the World Wildlife Foundation (Or is it Federation?) and that there has been a tremendous buildup of salt in the Earth's soil that is killing off all the snails. Tell them you feel very passionately about the snails; tell them outlandish and absurd things like that you someday hope to see highway signs reading: "Slow, Snails Crossing," etc.
Requirements: You needn't record your conversation or anything, but if you wanted to do so, either by audio or video, then that would certainly be acceptable. You merely need to post a transcript of how the conversation went, as accurate as your memory will allow. Good luck.

3/30/2006: Allison Assigns: "I Hope You're Good At Solitaire" To Stacey

This one's pretty easy.. maybe! I hope you're good at solitaire, because your task, should you choose to accept it, is to hone your solitaire skills (or lack there of) by winning $200.00 or more at Vegas Style Solitaire. Almost all computers have the basic Solitaire game built in. You simply change the options to Vegas style and keep track of your score by looking at the bottom of the screen.

Requirements:
Provide a screen capture of your game with the score at the bottom of the screen reading $200.00 or more. You may start over as many times as neccesary, but you must win $200.00.

(EDIT: I Just tried this and realized maybe 1000.00 is a bit much. let's go for 200.00 instead)
Here is what your options should be set to:

Good Luck!

3/29/2006: Seth Assigns "Find That, Emo" To Allison

Now anyone who really knows me knows that I hate nothing more than when I listen to a band, and then a year or two later they blow up and get all over T.V. Well, with this comes the stupid kids who claim to have lisened to the band from day one, but have really just heard them on MTV and saw that it was the cool thing to listen to. Now my task for you Allison, if you choose to accept it, is to go to Best Buy and hide all of the cds of any three bands listed below:
The Academy Is..., Taking Back Sunday, Panic! At the Disco, Motion City Soundtrack, Action Action, Armor for Sleep, Atreyu, Coheed & Cambria, The Early November, Funeral for a Friend, Hidden in Plain View, Less Than Jake, Rufio, Silverstein
Now for some ideas of where to hide the cds. Try the gospel section, possibly rap, or musical as well. Note that you are not confined to just the music section, but don't hide them in places that kids would be looking (i.e. Game Section). Just put them somewhere to make them hard for stupid little kids to find. Also, for people who are in to this music, I know I left out some good bands. Bands that I have listened to since my sophmore year in high school (3 years ago) that are now blowing up *cough* Fall Out Boy *cough*, but I feel as if they are past the point of no return.
Requirements: Be sure to list the bands that you pick and where you hid the cds. Also post a couple pictures of the places you hid them.

3/28/2006: Stephen Assigns "A Very Fortunate Task" To Seth

I hope you like Chinese Food. I don't care how you get them, your task is to collect 30 fortune cookies, open them all, and post all the fortunes on here.
Requirements: Describe how you got the fortune cookies. Then you must take pictures of all of the unopened cookies, then a picture of all of them opened, and then a picture of all of the fortunes (a group shot, not individually). Try to make the group shot of the fortunes readable. Finally, you must type all of the fortunes in your post and number them as such:
1. You will find true love in a phone booth...
2. Tomorrow will bring something new...
3. Etc...

Good luck and remember this fortune if you eat any Chinese Food:

3/27/2006: Tyson Assigns "Target Practice" To Stephen

Stephen must go to the driving range and hit from one of the mats. He must hit balls until he has hit the 40 yard sign three times.
Requirements: You must post a video of all three times that you hit the sign, along with any pictures that you can take.

3/25/2006: Allison assigns "Ask Me About Chicken" to ?

Hello Rutless.com-ers! It's time for me to assign my first task! I have to tell you, this is difficult. My creativity level went way down during my four years of hard studying in college. After discarding some ideas that included dressing in drag and things of that nature, I've decided to go with an easy one.

Your mission, whoever you are, should you choose to accept it, is to wear a sign around your neck (or somewhere obvious on your person) that says "Ask me about chicken" and when somebody asks you, you must reply by bokking like a chicken. Do your best chicken impersonation for at least a few seconds, but then you are free to explain to the person why you're acting like an idiot.

All you have to do is wear this sign into a public place for 20 minutes. Not too difficult, right? A grocery store type place would be best, but anywhere you have access to would be cool. You must be asked by at LEAST two people, or it doesn't count.

Requirements: Pictures required, at the bare minimum. I'd like to see a picture of you bokking, with obvious strangers looking on.

This is my first attempt at a task, hope you like it.

3/24/2006: Seth Assigns "Little Extra Cheese On The Taco ?" To Allison

Inspired by one of the greatest movies of all time, Me Myself and Irene, this next task is going to taste a little like sourdough bread. Allison your task is to go to any store of your choice, and ask someone for help looking for and picking out a tube of Vagisil.
Requirements: If at all possible take pictures of this little adventure and tell about the reaction of the person that helped you find it.

3/23/2006: Tyson Assigns "Squat Thrust Frenzy" To Seth

This was just the first thing that came to my head. Originally, i thought it might be a little mean. Then Seth called me and harassed me about my task yesterday. So, he's getting "Squat Thrust Frenzy." Every hour Seth will have to drop down and do 10 squat thrusts. No matter what time, or what he is doing. The moment he wakes up, he must do 10 squat thrusts. If he does not remember until 10 minutes after he wakes up, he has to do them then. Every one hour after he completes the first 10, he has to do another 10. For example, if he wakes up at 9:04, he has to do 10 at 9:04, 10:04, 11:04 and so on. If he wakes up and then remembers at 9:12, he has to do them then, at 10:12, and so on. Seth has class at 10 a.m. He is allowed to leave class and go outside and do them. For, i wouldn't want him to have to disrupt the class. That would be too extreme. However, he MUST do them some way or another at the designated time.
Requirements: This task is solely based on the honors system. There is no way that i can assure that he does all ten at every hour of the day. So, the cast and i are going to have to put our trust in him that he will complete all 10 at every hour. Seth has informed me that he will not be near a computer after 5 p.m. So, he is allowed to stop the task around that time and post his results. I will need at least some pictures at different times of the day of you doing them. Once again, we are going to trust that you complete all of your exercises, so please hold true to your acceptance. Assuming you do accept this task.

3/22/2006: Brandon Assigns "Bleeding Carolina Blue" To Tyson

Tyson is hands down the biggest Duke fan that any of us know. Along with being perpetually in love with Duke, he has a possibly more intense hatred for the North Carolina Tarheels. Therefore, tomorrow, Tyson must wear the following items, which will be prewashed for him: A Carolina Tarheels Hat, a Carolina Tarheels Shirt, and Carolina Tarheels Pants. In addition, he must not, at any point, brag on or support Duke and must make a good comment about Carolina during any sports related conversation.
Requirements: This task is in effect from the time he wakes up until 7:00pm EST. He must provide a thorough description of how wearing the clothes affected his daily routine and descriptions of any conversations where he had to praise Carolina. Tyson also needs to post some pictures of himself wearing the Carolina outfit.
Additional Discussion: For those who are unaware of the rivalry of Duke University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then here is a site that can help explain: Deja Blue.

3/21/2006: Stephen Assigns "Him Name Is Hopkin Brown Giraffe" To Brandon

A few years ago, a kid from Seattle posted a flyer for his lost frog and it became an internet phenomenon. You can read more on Lostfrog.org. I have created a poster for a lost giraffe as a tribute, which Brandon will need to distribute around town.
Requirements: Print 20 copies of the following poster by any means necessary, then use something, such as a staple gun, to post them around town on telephone poles or anywhere that you can post them or pass them out to people. Take pictures of places where you have posted them or you handing them out to people, whatever.

3/20/2006: Stacey Assigns "Alien Encounters" to Stephen

After a rousing first task, I thought I'd pay Stephen back in kind. No, I'm not making him reimburse me for my display of opulence in giving away OVER SEVEN DOLLARS, but I am making him tap his creative well. Those of us who know Stephen know that he is sick as all hell when it comes to Adobe Photoshop. Having won multiple online contests for big-time websites such as IMDB, it goes without saying that he's absolutely crunktacular with the program. Therefore, Stephen, you will be fabricating pictures of "Extraterrestrial origin" and submitting them to the local newspaper. Granted, you only have one day to work on it, so it's a given that the pictures don't need to be absolutely stellar works of art. In fact, ideally they would be done in a mediocre fashion in order to emphasize the phoniness of the photographs.

Requirements: The pictures may include any type of image implying "celestial" activity, such as: Crop circles, animal mutilations, unidentified flying objects, little green men, or anything else you deem to be relevant. The number of photos you create is also based on your own discretion. If you can churn out five photographs, then go for it; if you only feel like doing one, then that's fine, too.

As for submitting them to the local paper, you may do so using an alias, pseudonym, or the name of someone you dislike. Again, it's your discretion. Obviously, you will need to include a statement to the publishers stating where and how you procured the photos. The pictures themselves and the statement to the newspaper editors should be displayed in your post upon completion. Also, since "The News Herald" will likely not respond, their involvement in the task is irrelevant.

3/18/2006: Stephen assigns "Drive-Thru Samaritan" to ?

You must go through the drive-thru at a fast food restaurant and pay for the person's order who is in line behind you.
Requirements: You must post a thorough description of the entire experience. You must post pictures to help accentuate your description, the least of which must be photos of both your receipt and the other person's receipt. If at all possible, you should try to schedule a time for me to be there and I can make an attempt to video tape the event using a hidden camera. A few guidelines: If the order of the person is less than $5, you will cover the charges. If the order is between $5 and $10, I will reimburse you the cost above $5. If it is greater than $10, then do not pay for that person's meal and try again later in the day.
Additional Discussion: This is the first task for Rutless.com. It is not yet known who will perform this task. This will be decided when the random drawing is done on Sunday to determine the order of the cast members for Monday thru Saturday. The person who gets Monday will have to do this task or take a task from The Refusal Pool at a penalty of one refusal point.